List of The New York Times number-one books of 2019

The American daily newspaper The New York Times publishes multiple weekly lists ranking the best-selling books in the United States. The lists are split in three genres—fiction, nonfiction and children's books. Both the fiction and nonfiction lists are further split into multiple lists.

Fiction

The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books, in the combined print and e-books category.

The most frequent weekly best seller of the year was Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens with 25 weeks at the top of the list.

Date	Book	Author
January 6	The Reckoning	John Grisham
January 13	Long Road to Mercy	David Baldacci
January 20	Verses for the Dead	Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
January 27	Turning Point	Danielle Steel
February 3	Where the Crawdads Sing	Delia Owens
February 10
February 17
February 24	Connections in Death	J. D. Robb
March 3	Where the Crawdads Sing	Delia Owens
March 10
March 17
March 24
March 31
April 7
April 14
April 21
April 28
May 5	Redemption	David Baldacci
May 12	Neon Prey	John Sandford
May 19	18th Abduction	James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
May 26	Where the Crawdads Sing	Delia Owens
June 2
June 9
June 16
June 23
June 30
July 7	Summer of '69	Elin Hilderbrand
July 14	Where the Crawdads Sing	Delia Owens
July 21
July 28	Under Currents	Nora Roberts
August 4	The New Girl	Daniel Silva
August 11	One Good Deed	David Baldacci
August 18	Where the Crawdads Sing	Delia Owens
August 25
September 1
September 8
September 15	A Better Man	Louise Penny
September 22	Vendetta in Death	J. D. Robb
September 29	The Institute	Stephen King
October 6
October 13	The Water Dancer	Ta-Nehisi Coates
October 20	Bloody Genius	John Sandford
October 27	The 19th Christmas	James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
November 3	The Guardians	John Grisham
November 10	The Night Fire	Michael Connelly
November 17	Blue Moon	Lee Child
November 24	“The Non Talking Boy”	Alex Walton
December 1	Twisted Twenty-Six	Janet Evanovich
December 8	A Minute to Midnight	David Baldacci
December 15	The Rise of Magicks	Nora Roberts
December 22	The Guardians	John Grisham
December 29	Where The Crawdads Sing	Delia Owens

Nonfiction

The following list ranks the number-one best-selling nonfiction books, in the combined print and e-books category.

The most frequent weekly best seller of the year was Becoming by Michelle Obama with 15 weeks at the top of the list; it was also a best seller for the last five weeks in 2018.

Date	Book	Author	Publisher
January 6	Becoming	Michelle Obama	Crown
January 13
January 20
January 27
February 3
February 10
February 17
February 24
March 3
March 10	The Threat	Andrew McCabe	St. Martin's
March 17	Becoming	Michelle Obama	Crown
March 24
March 31
April 7	The Right Side of History	Ben Shapiro	Broadside
April 14	Becoming	Michelle Obama	Crown
April 21
April 28	Life Will Be the Death of Me	Chelsea Handler	Spiegel & Grau
May 5	Becoming	Michelle Obama	Crown
May 12	The Mueller Report	The Washington Post	Scribner
May 19
May 26	The Pioneers	David McCullough	Simon & Schuster
June 2	Howard Stern Comes Again	Howard Stern	Simon & Schuster
June 9	Unfreedom of the Press	Mark Levin	Threshold Editions
June 16
June 23
June 30
July 7	Educated	Tara Westover	Random House
July 14
July 21
July 28	Three Women	Lisa Taddeo	Avid Reader
August 4	Educated	Tara Westover	Random House
August 11
August 18
August 25
September 1
September 8
September 15
September 22	Call Sign Chaos	Jim Mattis and Bing West	Random House
September 29	Talking to Strangers	Malcolm Gladwell	Little, Brown
October 6
October 13	Inside Out	Demi Moore	Harper
October 20	Blowout	Rachel Maddow	Crown
October 27
November 3	Me	Elton John	Holt
November 10
November 17	The Beautiful Ones	Prince	Spiegel & Grau
November 24	Triggered	Donald Trump Jr.	Center Street
December 1
December 8	A Warning	Anonymous	Twelve
December 15	Crime in Progress	Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch	Random House
December 22	Educated	Tara Westover	Random House
December 29

See also

• Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 2010s